# Can I have my name changed? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 26, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346 "2003-03-26T18:28:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Marlow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlow)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/1 "2003-03-26T18:28:21Z")
If so, I’d like my name to be: Marlow ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/2 "2003-03-26T18:31:38Z")
Yep. Send an email to TubaDiva at TubaDivaataoldotcom. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/3 "2003-03-26T18:31:43Z")
After 5 posts? e-mail a mod… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/4 "2003-03-27T04:26:29Z")
Only if you change your name to **Snugglebunny City**. What do you mean you don’t want to be called Snugglebunny City? ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/5 "2003-03-27T06:50:12Z")
Where’s **Mangetout** and his obligatory **Atomic Badger Racing** suggestion? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/6 "2003-03-27T14:48:28Z")
Damn! too late. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/7 "2003-03-27T14:49:50Z")
Where **IS** the “Kingdom of Butter” anyway?? ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/8 "2003-03-27T19:30:24Z")
That’s what I’ve always wondered, as well… c’mon, **Mangetout** … at least give us little hints! 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/9 "2003-03-27T19:53:48Z")
I dunno, but do a Google search using “kingdom of butter” (include quotes), and you’ll find him on not one, but _two_ other boards. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/10 "2003-03-27T22:35:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by vanilla \* > **Where** IS_\* the “Kingdom of Butter” anyway?? \*\* I actually live in the UK, but the UK is not the Kingdom of Butter. A bit of a long story and one that you really have to have been there to appreciate, but here is the full explanation: Quite a few years ago, I worked alongside a brilliant and funny man(sadly he is now dead); he was what you’d get if you mixed up Oscar Wilde, Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock, then threw in a couple of slices of Eric Morecambe… I owe him a great deal in terms of my outlook on life and my taste in humour. We worked as auditors in a company that ran a number of shops in UK airports; one day he was musing on what seemed to be ever more narrow speciality outlets; no longer did we have a single store that sold travel accessories, but now we had Tie Rack, Briefcase World, Umbrella-U-Like and Sunglass Hut (OK, I made a couple of those up); he launched into an engaging and hugely funny monologue/rant on the subject; one of the possibilities he foresaw in the realm of airport speciality shops would be a store that sold only butter, **Kingdom Of Butter** would be the name… Margarine? Sorry, we don’t sell it. Like I said, you had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/11 "2003-03-28T22:51:38Z")
I see that his username has indeed been changes, but interestingly, on the “About This Message Board” front page, the thread is still listed as being started by Spider Jerusalem. -M ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/12 "2003-03-29T03:45:52Z")
Yes, the thread list stores the username as data and does not update it, so the name will stay “Spider Jerusalem” even though the username has been changed. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-have-my-name-changed/164346/13 "2003-03-29T21:28:41Z")
And clicking the “search” button isn’t fooled by name changes, so you can’t escape your shameful posting history by changing your name. Not _your_ name specifically, **Marlow**. “You” in the generic sense.